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Dec 14, 2020 at 6:29 PMThe southern German logistics associations are upset with the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. On December 9 and 10, the traffic jam due to the blocked traffic in Tyrol exceeded 80 km. This is the sad peak so far and, from the perspective of the Bavarians, has nothing to do with a good neighborly relationship. Road safety and environmental protection are being trampled upon. The damage for all those affected is immense.
(Munich/Kiefersfelden) The measure of what is bearable is full; Tyrol disregards the simplest rules of coexistence: the human rights of the driving personnel are being trampled upon, road safety and environmental protection are being neglected.
With truck traffic jams of over 80 kilometers in length on December 9 and 10, 2020, the truck blocking measures by the Tyrolean traffic authorities at the Kiefersfelden border crossing have reached their previous sad peak. This has led to a situation that is no longer just annoying and economically difficult for the affected companies, but has massively exacerbated the social situation of the driving personnel.
Unpredictable Risk
The accompanying circumstances of Tyrol’s anti-transit policy have now grown into an unpredictable risk for road safety, the environment, and the economic processes in the entire affected region, state the southern German logistics associations LBS, VSL, and LBT/BGL-Süd. Due to the disastrous traffic jam situation and the resulting detour and diversion traffic, the delivery capability of the local economy can no longer be guaranteed in some cases, and employees are hindered from reaching their workplaces in the region.
It is almost a miracle that the accident rate on and around the A8 and A93 highways, as well as on the side roads, seems to have remained within limits so far. However, the massively traffic-restricting measures of Tyrol hit the drivers the hardest, who are condemned to stand in traffic jams for hours without the most basic hygienic supplies and food options, as the parking lots on the affected highways are completely overloaded at the same time. “From our perspective, it is no longer acceptable how Tyrol passively accepts,” say the associations, “that the drivers end up in such a precarious situation, unable to adhere to their work shifts and schedules. This borders on inhumanity.”
Great Damage to Logistics
The damage to logistics and its customers is now in the millions. Those hoping for improvement will be disappointed, as Tyrol’s arbitrariness continues, with a general night driving ban for trucks with the cleanest emissions class Euro VI on the Inn Valley highway starting in January 2021. This will further intensify heavy traffic during the day and lead to continuous traffic jams of 60 to 100 kilometers on days with blocked traffic. Therefore, the associations are once again calling on the politicians in Bavaria, Berlin, and Brussels to take action. “Tyrol must finally be shown the boundaries with all severity, if necessary through countermeasures; otherwise, our neighbors will continue to turn the escalation screw,” say Sabine Lehmann (LBS), Sebastian Lechner (LBT), and Andrea Marongiu (VSL).
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